Nathan Edwards

The EP-1320 “instrumentalis electronicum” is preloaded with Dark Ages instruments and effects, including the hurdy gurdy, gittern, tambour, plus swordfights and “two separate witches.”

Yes, it’s an even-less-scrutable version of the EP-133 sampler I couldn’t make hide nor hair of, but sore tempted am I to drop $299 and annoy the hell out of my D&D group.

In our review of the LG StanbyME TV (the stick one, not the suitcase one) we called it “a so-so TV on a stellar stand.” And you can get a better TV for less, but not with that sleek, wheeled stand. It even has a battery.

It’s on sale at Amazon for $800. The suitcase one is also on sale.

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Out here in the Texas 'burbs, we're under an extreme heat advisory, and more likely to see an electric Hummer than a Microlino.

All the more reason to read this Ars Technica piece on the history of the microcar and imagine pulling up to a café in a Citroën Ami, sharing a parking space with a Canta and a Twizy, somewhere a little cooler — in several senses.

Toward the end (maybe?) of the I/O keynote, Google threw in a cute little ditty about all the things you can do with Gemini prompts: generate photos of cats playing guitar, find smart things to say about Renoir, etc.

It includes the phrase “There’s no wrong way to prompt,” which, have you met people?

Ryan Norbauer wanted the perfect stabilizer for his upcoming Seneca keyboard, which will start at $3,400 (not a typo). And so, armed only with impossibly high standards, an unbelievable tenacity, and a “cash bazooka,” he set out to invent it.